| yerkess study | IQ test on 1.75 million army recruits consisting of 2 tests - alpha and beta consiting og white americans , 'negroes' and european immigrants |
| Describe the Alpha and Beta test | Alpha - literate recruits test based on americans culture
Beta - symbols and say what they are bases on america |
| Results for yerkes | white american higher mental age of 13.04 |
| Goulds critism | cultural bias in testing and impacted on legislation of immigration |
| Eval of yerkes study | s=quantitative objective data
w= reductionist , lacks eco valid, socially sensitive |
| Baron Cohen method | IV- normal , tourette's and autistic
dv - performance of theory of mind |
| Procedure Baron Cohen | Eyes task - photographs recognising emotions from eyes
task 2- strange stories for autism and tourette's groups
task 3 - gender recognition from same set of eyes
task 4 - basic emotions task |
| Results for Baron Cohen | Adult with autism scored the lowest of 16.3
females in normal group could understand basic emotions more |
| Eval for Bc | S= controls such as same set of eyes - standardsided -r
W= ecologically valid , lack validity as it's not actually testing theory of mind |
| Freud method /procedure | - case study father's subjective reports on little Han's
- oedipus complex - oral , anal , phallic , latency and genital
- a battle between id , ego and super ego |
| evaluation of explanation f | - unfalsifiable so doesnt support psych
- ando and ethnocentric
so subjective and lack generalisability |
| Hancock aim's | - Psychopaths instrumental nature
- Psychopath's unique material needs
- Psychopaths emotional defecit |
| Hancock's sample and materials | 52 males in canadian prision
measured by a PCL-R assesments
Dal and Wmatrix to compare language |
| Procedure for H | all pptts underwent interviews with a PCL-r and has to score over 25 to be psychopath
- all interviewers were blind to a void bias |
| Eval for H | S= inter rater reliabilty - semi structured interview gathered objective data - qual and quan
w= Lowered score to 25 lacks validity
- lack generalisabilty all canadian |
| BARON COHEN SAMPLE | autism - 16 - self selected
tourettes- 14- self selected
normal adults -50- random
england |
| Han's dreams and fantasies | Giraffe Dream – A big giraffe and a crumpled one. Hans took the crumpled one away and the big one called out.
Married to His Mother – Hans fantasised he was married to his mother, he had his own children and his father had the role of grandfather.
Plumber – A plumber came and removed his bottom and ‘widdler’ and replaced them with larger ones. |
| Why did Han's have these dreams | He was going through unresolved conflict due to unresolved trauma in unconcious brain |
